Roll pin ticket



Nov. 6, 192s. 1,690,976

G. W. HENRY, JR

ROLL PIN TICKET 4Filed May 5. 1926 X75/Wr.

` /f Magma? Patented Nov. 6, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. HENRY, JR., OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO SOABAR COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION F PENNSYL- vANlA.

ROLL PIN TICKET.

Application filed May 5,

*.This invention relates to certain improvements in tags or tickets having pins at one end by which they are attached to goods to be marked.

I One object of this invention is to make a long strip of connected tags, each tag section having a pin at one edge by which it can be attached to the goods.

A further object of the invention is to so l0 arrange the tags and the attaching pins that the strip can be coiled into a small compass, and placed upon a spider of a ticket printing machine, which will automatically kfeed the tickets to the printing mechanism, and after l the tickets are printed will cut the strips into individual tickets. A

This application is a companion application to one tiled b mei the 17th day of March 1926, Seria 4No. 95,323.

In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a severed and printed ticket;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a portion of a strip of tic ets;

Fig. 3 is an edge view of one of the tickets;

Fig. 4 is a. plan 4view of a coiled strip oi tickets; and

Fig. 5 is a sectional view on the line 5 5, Fig; 4.

The strip 1 of tickets may be of any length desired, the strip preferably containing a thousand or more tickets. These strips are made of any suitable material and of an thickness desired.

In each edge of the tag strip 1 are notches 2, 2", the Walls of the notches preferably being rounded as shown. The notches 2 are shaped to be engaged b a pawl of a tag Tinting machine by Whlch the tag strip is ed past the printing mechanism and then in position to be severed to form the individual tag shown in Fig. 1.

At 'one edge of the tag strip at each tag section are attaching pins 3 in the form of 46 staples, the pins projecting through the tag 1926. serial No.`1o6,941.

as shown, the cross-bar 4 of each pin being on one side. l The pin is bent and passed through the tag some distance from its edge, then bent on the opposite side so as to clamp the body of the tag which holds the pin rigidly in position, the points of the pins projecting at right angles to the face of the tag as shown.

When the tag strip is coiled as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, the pins of one convolution 55 pass under the pins of an adjoining conyolution. l The coil of tags is higher at the center than at the edge, due to the arrangement of the pins.

The spider 5 of the tag or ticket printing 60 machine is shown in dotted lines in Figs. 4 and 5, the coil of tags resting upon the ribs 6 as shown in Fig. 5.

As the tag strip is uncoiled by the feed mechanism of the machine, the pins of one convolution pass freely from under those of an adjoining convolution. The printing machine is so designed that as the tags pass through the machine, the pins pass through .a slot in the guide 7, as shown in Fig. 3.

I claim A coiled tag strip composed of a series of connected tag sections, each tag section having a pin secured thereto and projecting perpendicularly from one face thereof immediately adjacent one longitudinal edge of the strip, said coiled strip being helically wound about a given axis with the said longitudinal edge in each convolution of the helix being axially displacedwith respect to the next 8o adjacent convolution, and the said pins in each convolution extending under the longitudinal edge of the said adjacent convolution, Whereb the radial spacing of the adjacent convo ntions of said helix is less than the distance from the face of the strip to the points of the pins which extend perpendicular thereto.

GEORGE W. HENRY, JR. 

